HIGH SCHOOL TRACK AND FIELD: Wayneboro should be solid this season

After a promising start for some Waynesboro track and field athletes at the annual Tim Cook Invitational in Chambersburg on Saturday, the 2013 season is supposed to begin in earnest on Tuesday with a home meet against Big Spring.

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By Lee Goodwin

Waynesboro Record Herald - Waynesboro, PA

By Lee Goodwin

Posted Mar. 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM

By Lee Goodwin

Posted Mar. 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM

WAYNESBORO — After a promising start for some Waynesboro track and field athletes at the annual Tim Cook Invitational in Chambersburg on Saturday, the 2013 season is supposed to begin in earnest on Tuesday with a home meet against Big Spring.

If you looked out your window this morning, you're left with the feeling that it might not happen until the snow melts, hopefully, some time before April.

Yep, it's been that kind of spring, even though spring isn't even a week old. After a cold preseason, it's a cold start to the competition portion of the season as well, leaving athletes itching for warmer weather in anticipation of a journey to the merry month of May and the postseason.

"We're going to be a solid team both boys and girls," said Waynesboro head coach Darwin Seiler. "Whether we have enough to compete for the (Mid-Penn Colonial Division) remains to be seen. We anticipate a number of post-season qualifiers, and we have some people capable of making it to states."

Seiler's job is made easier by the capable contributions of his coaching staff, consisting of Jim Rickett, Tom Lowry, David Swink, Doug Crist, Ray Kipe and Melanie Bitner.

"We've got good numbers, and we have a lot of kids with similar performance levels," Seiler said. "In order for that depth to be solid, we're going to have to raise some of those performances."

The boys' team will have to replace the likes of Christian Daniels (pole vault) and Tyler Kunkle (hurdles). The girls' team lost school-record setting sprinter Maddie Sellers as well as Lyndsay Vickery (sprints and jumps).

Paterno won the discus event at the invitational and was second in the shot put. Adgers, who qualified for the PIAA Championships in the high jump last year, won the long jump, tied for third in the high jump and was fourth in the triple jump.

Also, Hollister Rolls (hurdles, 400) Jade Swope (sprints), Lindsey Henke (hurdles, jumps, 400), Brooke Smith (400 and 800), Molly Lloyd (discus) and Hannah Kauffman (javelin) will add firepower that should help make the Maidens a formidable threat to duplicate their winning record from a year ago.

Mowen placed third in the high jump at Saturday's invitational, while Rolls was fourth in the 100 hurdles and Hodge-Shindledecker was sixth in the 200.